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Creating the Healthiest Pregnancy Possible

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Pregnancy is a time full of excitement, anticipation, love, and longing. Moms and dads anxiously await a long 40 weeks to meet their new little one and imagine what their life will be like once the baby arrives. Lets be honest though for a minute. While social media likes to glamorize pregnancy and make it look like some effortless task, in reality, pregnancy is hard. Simple as that. Women are told what they can and can't eat or drink, how much sleep to get (but don't forget that it must be on your left side), keep on exercising, don't gain too much or too little weight...the list goes on forever. While that may seem like an easy list of tasks to any non-pregnant person, throw in morning sickness, food aversion, exhaustion- coupled with insomnia, being uncomfortable in any position, weight gain and sciatica, the focus quickly goes from having a healthy pregnancy to simply surviving pregnancy. This article will hopefully instill some confidence in you as I give you easy ti